US President, Trump threatens Iran with destruction. Iran’s chief diplomat Zarif demands respect – also via Twitter. The Iranians fear an outbreak of war by Mistake.
The Iranian foreign Minister, Mohamed Dwaschad Sarif calls for more respect
The mood is heated so that a spark can ignite a new war in the Middle East. Officially, no one wants to respond to Donald trump’s violent threat: On Sunday, the US President had threatened in a Tweet Iran with destruction. A few hours earlier, an Unknown person had fired a Katyusha rocket on the highly secured “Green Zone” in Baghdad. No one had come to harm.
Although neither was clear who had perpetrated the rocket attack, what was the goal of the rocket, heats the President of the U.S., the already sharp rhetoric continued: “If Iran wants to fight, this will be the official end of the Iran. The United States never threatened again!” wrote Trump on Twitter.
The Iranian foreign Minister Mohamed Javad Zarif has dismissed the threat of U.S. President Donald Trump, his country to wipe out. Trumps a “genocide” scan end “” not meant Taunting “the end of Iran,” said Zarif on Monday via Twitter. Iran’s foreign Minister sought then the story: The Iranians had remained for thousands of years, a great people, while all the attackers were gone, wrote Zarif on Twitter. He called on the White house, “never to threaten any of an Iranian”. “Try it with respect – it works,” he advised instead.
Sarif throws are longer in the US national security adviser, John Bolton, to do with the Saudi grain Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States in a war with Iran. “The Situation is extremely tense. And I can very well imagine that it was understood in all circles,” analyzes Fatemeh Govaraie from Tehran in a phone interview with DW. She is a member of the Council of nationalist-religious activists of Iran.
“The relationship between Iran and the US is strained for the past 40 years. But now, a President in the USA in Power whose actions are unpredictable. The probability that Iran provoked the US in this Situation, is not very large.”
No one in Iran wants war
Iran has lots of ways to make the United States and its allies in the Middle East difficulties. In Iraq, for example, several Shiite militias are active, controlled by the Iranian revolutionary guards. “A war with the USA, nobody wants to now in Tehran”, is Govaraie sure. “We don’t know what is discussed behind closed doors, but the official language is unambiguous.”
General Hussein Salami, head of Iran’s revolutionary guard
Also, Hussein Salami, the head of the revolutionary guards, said on Sunday, Iran strive to be no war in the Middle East. At the same time, he was but combative: “The difference between those (USA) and us is that they are afraid of a war, and not the will to do so,” said General Hussein Salami, the Fars news Agency.
His statement came after Iran’s revolutionary guards-supported Houthi rebels declared in Yemen, they would have attacked with multiple drones, marine oil terminals in Saudi Arabia. In the past, the Shia had a rebel several times, the Sunni Kingdom of Saudi Arabia attacked – probably with Iranian missiles. It is unclear whether they have acted on behalf of Iran. It is clear, however, that with each of these threatens to escalate incidents, the conflict in the Persian Gulf between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Crisis with no way out?
Iran’s foreign Minister Zarif accuses some countries in the Region, to be in a war, interested. The behavior of the government in Washington described Sarif four days ago, during a visit to Tokyo as “unacceptable.” His country feel, unlike the United States, to the nuclear deal bound and leave – and I quote – “maximum restraint” to prevail.
Reform politician and political Analyst Abbas Abdi sees no opportunity for dialogue with the United States (archive image)
“What made the Situation even worse, is the presence of people such as John Bolton, the search for years, a war with Iran,” says the former U.S. Embassy occupiers, and later dissident, Abbas Abdi, Tehran, in an interview with DW. He sees no way out of this crisis for Iran. “To negotiate under these circumstances, the United States is pointless. There is no theme for the dialogue. President Trump wants to negotiate an agreement with Iran, which was signed by the world community. But without the participation of the other party to the contract, the so-called 5+1, Iran and the United States to find a solution. And the danger of a new war is increasing every day.”